Ive always felt that using multiple languages for applications is a very good idea. The ability to use perl for something like parsing data for a c program comes to mind as a very obvious example. You get the performance of C with the ease and power of programming (the parsing part atleast) in perl. However i think there are probably some serious preformance drawbacks to using this method, though im really not sure. Anyone care to enlighten?
They may not be considered art by the moajority of people right now, but given a few years I expect that they will be. With the amount of work by ARTISTS that goes into the design of these games and the skill of some of the best coders around, its hard to believe that they arent considered art already. Even now there are thousands of people who obsess over classic video games, emulating old systems and collecting thousands of game roms. Its only a matter of time before people begin to view these games as probably the most innovative and original art form of this century. In the age of multimedia and computer graphics, video games are the epitome of these arts.
I personally think that games do really push the envelope on UI design. Take games like Black and White that use gesture based control. This would be a great ability in many pieces of real software. Imagine being able to trigger filters or switch drawing tools in photoshop by simply making quick gestures, the learning curve would be a draw back but it would be the same as hotkeys and key combinations, new users wouldnt be effected but power users would learn to use them and theyd become a natural efficiency booster.
This is just one good example of a UI feature used in a game that would be very useful in real software applications. Sure many games have stupid and unnatural interfaces, but many also have strong elements that could prove to be immensely useful in the future
This is a really good idea that id like to see done for more software. Benchmarks provide a good basis for choosing software and hardware and they are usually the first things i look at. Though its not a done in the most scientific way, using standard tools provides a much better real world comparison than just using special benchmarking software. If only there were more benchmarks to compare other software tools it would make desicion making about what to use that much easier.
As usual a stupid threat made by lawmakers with any technical background. If they had any at all they'd know that even if they removed all the direct connections with a sanctioned country connects could be made through any other country. The internet cant be policed at borders and service that claims it can do that is just lying to itself, avoid things like that is trivial. A bit of encryption and some tunneling and voila! your past any software blocking available.
This threat is an ignorant response to a technology that is totally misunderstood, these goddamn politicians should get some real technical consultants to explain them why there ideas are stupid before they go around making outrageous claims and generally making themselves look stupid.
Id have to say that our technology would probably be so far behind that of any alien species that we encountered that there would be no point in interfacing our technologies. If we were able to replicate or atleast learn from thier systems we would probably be able to jump decades if not centuries ahead in almost all hardware and software. They would probably have things like quantum computers, or all optical computers or another technology not yet concieved here.
Hell i wouldnt be surprised if the first "aliens" we meet are machines, since i think that after the development of AI by extraterrestrials it could produce a quantum leap in technology. If you think human AI is a problem just thinkk that maybe it aliens have already done it...
Dont forget about the extraterrestrial viruses that the aliens will bring with thier missionaries and settlers that will wipe out 90% of our population because our immune systems haven't adapted.
The reason for having these expensive certs from these companies is that you are paying for that level of trust. If i was giving out certs for free there would be no reason at all to trust me. However having a big name like verisign as the provider of your cert is like wearing brand name cloths, its a status symbol and it brings with it a level of trust, which is very important for ecommerce sites to have.
Is there really any use in having these specs. Since there are already opensource icq clone programs what is the point in using the mirabilis API to write icq-like software when an open project will have a MUCH less restrictive license... maybe im missing something but is there any real use in having this info. One more note... the ICQ API Reference guide included with the files is dated 1998... not exactly very new is it?
Thats a pretty useless idea. The antivirus approach is totally invalid in this situation. Since the AV style software would have to be implemented in either the client or server software either way it wouldn't work. If the AV software was in the server code every mp3 would have to be sent to the server to have it "scanned" this could take hours on a cable connection and would waste Napsters bandwidth. If the AV software was implemented in the client code it would be relatively easy to write patches that would tamper with the scanning definitions and trick the software to accept anything.
The AV model is not made for use in a situation were the user WANTS to do something, only to help a user who doesnt want to
I used to be a huge trek fan. Ive seen all of the original shows and most of TnG, however i really havent been able to fall in love with ds9 and voyager. I think both of those shows were great ideas carried out badly. i think that going back to an earlier time in trek history is going to make for a very interesting show. Im expecting lots of interesting plot ideas from this series, as long as theres no time travel i think ill be pretty happy. This looks like it might be a great series, hope the writers can make this work.
If anything the Open Source development model is more secure... any code to modify the official kernel and tools has to pass many different eyes and can be viewed by even more, almost any backdoor would be easily noticed before it was added to the development tree. In a closed source enviroment much fewer people need to see the code and, as proven with the "Netscape engineers are Weenies" backdoor for IIS, therefore delibrate backdoors can be placed easily into the code.
This response is to what i THINK the poster is talking about, because by speaking about "installing exploits" im assuming he means backdoors in the code. The only other issue would be modifications to a system already in use and since this can only be done as root its not really a big issue as to whether the system is open or closed. The truth of the matter is you cant trust software unless you can see the code, and even that should not be enough, precotions always must be taken but DARPA is on the right track... if they want security the only way they will ever truely have it is if they stick to open source software.
Some quick math involving projected figures and such paints a scary picture of the future. With Napster charging $5 per month to 50 million users that works out to 3 BILLION revenue in 1 year. That is approximately 15% of the 20 billion dollar per year music industry, in other words Napster would be making about the same revenue as one of the big 5 labels would be making per year. Hell if the $1 billion for 5 years deal goes through artists would propably be able to negotiate better deals with Napster than with a label. Scary to thing that good old Napster might become the next record industry giant... perhaps bigger than any other to date...
The only defense against DDoS attacks(and DoS attacks in general) is to distribute important servers and services over different networks with different IPs and ISPs. Keeping your webservers all on the same network segment is suicide for a big company that needs uptime. Same goes for any other services like DNS. without a central target to attack it becomes much harder to take down site. Use numerous isps and mirror the website(or DNS records) on seperate servers, it really isnt that hard to do and the costs are minor at best, definately worth the investment for companies that need 100% uptime. Couple this with a good routing setup and competent sys-admins and you have the best defense against any DoS attack.
Honestly these new TLDs are totally useless.
The.coop and.aero are going to be used for american companies (well there may be some flexibilty for.aero) only and therefore don't help reinforce ICANNs claims to be an international entity at all..museum will be subject to some serious interpretation as to what exactly is a museum... i mean hell could i have my "museum of usenet porn" registered there..biz is useless since there is already a.com (company business not to much of a difference) and.info which i personally actually like is going to be very underused..name is in my opinion a really bad domain name but it should atleast allow people to register their names as domain names in a valid category.
The only one i think has it right is the.pro its going to be set up so that you will actually be registering a third level domain name and it will be broken into different second level domain categories. Its this kind of usenet style system that should work best. A person will then be able to identify the purpose of a site based on its name and will make the DNS system MUCH more useful. personally i see nothing wrong with yahoo.search.info as or microsoft.compsoft.com. this should also totally remove the cybersquatting issue and the stupid artificial values given to domain names.
Ok thats all very nice but... your points are TOTALLY invalid!
Firstly if you didn't feel the need to rip apart your first palmpilot and hack it thats fine, but id have to say thats the kinda thing that gets alot of hackers going.
Second of course hackers only hack what they enjoy and what interests them, its impossible for one person to hack everything. It seems that you refer to all hackers as computer hackers and then go on to chastise them for not hacking thier toasters and thier cars, but theres more out thier than just computer hackers. A hardware hacker might have some interest in taking apart a toaster(if it was anything more than a couple of heating coils) and theres a name for people who hack cars... MECHANIC. No hackers claim its their civic duty to hack something... they claim is their civic RIGHT. If i want to be able to hack software or hardware i paid for i should be able to, companies arent requiered to make it easy for me but they damn well should be lobbying for laws that make it illegal... what am i buying then... a service? i think not... im paying for a product and thats what i damn well want!
Id like you to tell me why arguing that everything should be hacked is ridiculous. Its completly useful, interoperatability and adaptability aren't always the priority of companies who are trying to push monopolies on their products sectors but they are definate advantages to consumers. Every day were being pushed by these companies to buy only their products (SONY and its memory sticks vs flash cards etc). The point im trying to make is that there are millions of good reasons to hack things but none not to. If you wanna claim thats its not constructive and its a waste of time thats fine, but its MY time and im going to do whatever i want with it. If you dont wanna rip apart your palm thats fine with me but if you're trying to tell me that i should rip apart mine then i have a problem
I wonder if the company did any market research before creating this product. I mean where do a good majority of people use cellphones most... their cars. A video phone will be useless in the car and would probably cause some very bad driving. Also im sure the units and the service are going to be very pricey. Seriously i dont think that anyone is has some sort of driving need to see people theyre alking to while their out of their homes. With the relativly weak acceptance of standard video phones i really dont see this idea doing very well. Sorry but i think this product will be a bomb...
Having my fair share of serious concentration problems ill tell you what i feel has helped me most. 1) while reading or doing anything where your trying to remember stuff (studying for a test at school etc) listen to musics light in the lyrics department personally im a big pink floyd fan so i find Dark Side of the Moon to be great for that. 2) Coding or preforming any task that involves creativity i like to have the loudest possible music i can get, personally i find anything hard rock/metal/heavy alt rock to work great though sometimes ill listen to softer stuff.
White noise i usually find annoying and sometimes even distracting... id much rather hear some good music especially stuff that i know really well because then i dont concentrate on the lyrics at all.
Because, with current processes and materials it would be a very large ineffecient overheated piece of crap. They have to increase the effiency of the chip before they can start to push that speed... eg smaller transistors, better heat sinks, possibly even better materials... galium arsenide anyone?
From personal experience I can tell you that learning on a to program on a Microsoft platform has no really hurt my ability to program for Unix. In fact the very first programming language I was learned MS VBasic, and since I started to code with C, and Java I've never looked back. As soon as I started to use unix on a shell account ive been awestruck by its ease as a programming language. Unix is an OS built to work so well with C. In windows doing file/printer I/O was really fucking annoying and quite cryptic for a beginer, in unix it was just SO simple to understand conceptually and implement. Sockets as well are beyond annoying in windows and in Unix are just so much easier to do (and do right).
Having the Source code to all of the important system binaries made learning C so much easier for me as in gave me more example code than I could possibly dream of and having header files to do most use most of the operating systems functions(eg unistd.h) allowed my programs to actually do useful things (as opposed to a database or snake in VB).
I say let Microsoft educate the kinds, because as soon as they get thier hands on Unix theyll never want to go back. If you want to get kinds using unix then the best thing you can do is make them see how much more powerful it is. theres not a dreary Windows using day that goes by where i dont wish for a nice combo of cat and grep or ps and kill to make this piece of crap OS do what i want it to. Hopefully i can now get back to using my good windows friends Scandisk and defragment to finish cleaning up my harddrive so i can split it into a linux partition for the first time since last June.
As a kid with personal experience there is NOTHING better than unix for the aspiring programmer.
I dont think you actually have to pay the certification charge... i mean what are they going to do to force you to pay. Now if you sell the software that might be a different story legally but i think the certification for freeware is going to be totally unenforcable, hell since the system does use linux wouldn't they technically have to try to charge linux developers for making their software. In other words i really think that this is not going to be easy for them to enforce. Now maybe they expect people to get certification if they want their software to be considered "official" but im really not sure.
This thing is SO much more than just a games console. I mean it has built in capability to be a DVD movie player AND a mp3 jukebox. It has ethernet(which translates to both highspeed access and functionality as an internet appliance), usb ports (keyboard and mouse to think of a few good uses. or maybe an external harddrive for movies, mp3s, games, etc). Its capable of running almost all linux software(with a little modification possibly), and it can play FREE games. In other words this system can be cheap and powerful PC, media device, or almost anything else with extra peripherals and some software. hmmmm wonder if i could use it as a cheap firewall or router...
If this is more than vapourware im going to be one very happy(and broke) XXXTaC
Though personallyi don't believe real world trademarks and such should apply to the internet especially in terms of the name services system i can find NOTHING wrong with typosquatting. Why should these company's be allowed to have control over names that they DO NOT own, if they don't registed the typoed domain names themselves (and for the amount some people pay for domain names i can't see why they dont try to atleast) then they have no ownership over them and shouldn't be able to force people to give them up. I really hope that ICANN takes a much less favourable stance towards these companies that it's predecessors have in the past. The domain name system works on a first-come-first-server and should continue to do so without the help of our good laywer friends who are making some big bucks on the whole "cybersquatting" issue.
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Ive always felt that using multiple languages for applications is a very good idea. The ability to use perl for something like parsing data for a c program comes to mind as a very obvious example. You get the performance of C with the ease and power of programming (the parsing part atleast) in perl. However i think there are probably some serious preformance drawbacks to using this method, though im really not sure. Anyone care to enlighten?
They may not be considered art by the moajority of people right now, but given a few years I expect that they will be. With the amount of work by ARTISTS that goes into the design of these games and the skill of some of the best coders around, its hard to believe that they arent considered art already. Even now there are thousands of people who obsess over classic video games, emulating old systems and collecting thousands of game roms. Its only a matter of time before people begin to view these games as probably the most innovative and original art form of this century. In the age of multimedia and computer graphics, video games are the epitome of these arts.
CNN has just play video of the 1st crash of a plane into the world trade center. god fucking damn, whats happening to the world.
I personally think that games do really push the envelope on UI design. Take games like Black and White that use gesture based control. This would be a great ability in many pieces of real software. Imagine being able to trigger filters or switch drawing tools in photoshop by simply making quick gestures, the learning curve would be a draw back but it would be the same as hotkeys and key combinations, new users wouldnt be effected but power users would learn to use them and theyd become a natural efficiency booster.
This is just one good example of a UI feature used in a game that would be very useful in real software applications. Sure many games have stupid and unnatural interfaces, but many also have strong elements that could prove to be immensely useful in the future
This is a really good idea that id like to see done for more software. Benchmarks provide a good basis for choosing software and hardware and they are usually the first things i look at. Though its not a done in the most scientific way, using standard tools provides a much better real world comparison than just using special benchmarking software. If only there were more benchmarks to compare other software tools it would make desicion making about what to use that much easier.
As usual a stupid threat made by lawmakers with any technical background. If they had any at all they'd know that even if they removed all the direct connections with a sanctioned country connects could be made through any other country. The internet cant be policed at borders and service that claims it can do that is just lying to itself, avoid things like that is trivial. A bit of encryption and some tunneling and voila! your past any software blocking available.
This threat is an ignorant response to a technology that is totally misunderstood, these goddamn politicians should get some real technical consultants to explain them why there ideas are stupid before they go around making outrageous claims and generally making themselves look stupid.
Id have to say that our technology would probably be so far behind that of any alien species that we encountered that there would be no point in interfacing our technologies. If we were able to replicate or atleast learn from thier systems we would probably be able to jump decades if not centuries ahead in almost all hardware and software. They would probably have things like quantum computers, or all optical computers or another technology not yet concieved here. Hell i wouldnt be surprised if the first "aliens" we meet are machines, since i think that after the development of AI by extraterrestrials it could produce a quantum leap in technology. If you think human AI is a problem just thinkk that maybe it aliens have already done it...
Dont forget about the extraterrestrial viruses that the aliens will bring with thier missionaries and settlers that will wipe out 90% of our population because our immune systems haven't adapted.
The reason for having these expensive certs from these companies is that you are paying for that level of trust. If i was giving out certs for free there would be no reason at all to trust me. However having a big name like verisign as the provider of your cert is like wearing brand name cloths, its a status symbol and it brings with it a level of trust, which is very important for ecommerce sites to have.
Is there really any use in having these specs. Since there are already opensource icq clone programs what is the point in using the mirabilis API to write icq-like software when an open project will have a MUCH less restrictive license... maybe im missing something but is there any real use in having this info. One more note... the ICQ API Reference guide included with the files is dated 1998... not exactly very new is it?
Thats a pretty useless idea. The antivirus approach is totally invalid in this situation. Since the AV style software would have to be implemented in either the client or server software either way it wouldn't work. If the AV software was in the server code every mp3 would have to be sent to the server to have it "scanned" this could take hours on a cable connection and would waste Napsters bandwidth. If the AV software was implemented in the client code it would be relatively easy to write patches that would tamper with the scanning definitions and trick the software to accept anything. The AV model is not made for use in a situation were the user WANTS to do something, only to help a user who doesnt want to
I used to be a huge trek fan. Ive seen all of the original shows and most of TnG, however i really havent been able to fall in love with ds9 and voyager. I think both of those shows were great ideas carried out badly. i think that going back to an earlier time in trek history is going to make for a very interesting show. Im expecting lots of interesting plot ideas from this series, as long as theres no time travel i think ill be pretty happy. This looks like it might be a great series, hope the writers can make this work.
If anything the Open Source development model is more secure... any code to modify the official kernel and tools has to pass many different eyes and can be viewed by even more, almost any backdoor would be easily noticed before it was added to the development tree. In a closed source enviroment much fewer people need to see the code and, as proven with the "Netscape engineers are Weenies" backdoor for IIS, therefore delibrate backdoors can be placed easily into the code. This response is to what i THINK the poster is talking about, because by speaking about "installing exploits" im assuming he means backdoors in the code. The only other issue would be modifications to a system already in use and since this can only be done as root its not really a big issue as to whether the system is open or closed. The truth of the matter is you cant trust software unless you can see the code, and even that should not be enough, precotions always must be taken but DARPA is on the right track... if they want security the only way they will ever truely have it is if they stick to open source software.
Some quick math involving projected figures and such paints a scary picture of the future. With Napster charging $5 per month to 50 million users that works out to 3 BILLION revenue in 1 year. That is approximately 15% of the 20 billion dollar per year music industry, in other words Napster would be making about the same revenue as one of the big 5 labels would be making per year. Hell if the $1 billion for 5 years deal goes through artists would propably be able to negotiate better deals with Napster than with a label. Scary to thing that good old Napster might become the next record industry giant... perhaps bigger than any other to date...
The only defense against DDoS attacks(and DoS attacks in general) is to distribute important servers and services over different networks with different IPs and ISPs. Keeping your webservers all on the same network segment is suicide for a big company that needs uptime. Same goes for any other services like DNS. without a central target to attack it becomes much harder to take down site. Use numerous isps and mirror the website(or DNS records) on seperate servers, it really isnt that hard to do and the costs are minor at best, definately worth the investment for companies that need 100% uptime. Couple this with a good routing setup and competent sys-admins and you have the best defense against any DoS attack.
Honestly these new TLDs are totally useless. The .coop and .aero are going to be used for american companies (well there may be some flexibilty for .aero) only and therefore don't help reinforce ICANNs claims to be an international entity at all. .museum will be subject to some serious interpretation as to what exactly is a museum... i mean hell could i have my "museum of usenet porn" registered there. .biz is useless since there is already a .com (company business not to much of a difference) and .info which i personally actually like is going to be very underused. .name is in my opinion a really bad domain name but it should atleast allow people to register their names as domain names in a valid category.
The only one i think has it right is the .pro its going to be set up so that you will actually be registering a third level domain name and it will be broken into different second level domain categories. Its this kind of usenet style system that should work best. A person will then be able to identify the purpose of a site based on its name and will make the DNS system MUCH more useful. personally i see nothing wrong with yahoo.search.info as or microsoft.compsoft.com. this should also totally remove the cybersquatting issue and the stupid artificial values given to domain names.
Ok thats all very nice but... your points are TOTALLY invalid!
Firstly if you didn't feel the need to rip apart your first palmpilot and hack it thats fine, but id have to say thats the kinda thing that gets alot of hackers going.
Second of course hackers only hack what they enjoy and what interests them, its impossible for one person to hack everything. It seems that you refer to all hackers as computer hackers and then go on to chastise them for not hacking thier toasters and thier cars, but theres more out thier than just computer hackers. A hardware hacker might have some interest in taking apart a toaster(if it was anything more than a couple of heating coils) and theres a name for people who hack cars... MECHANIC. No hackers claim its their civic duty to hack something... they claim is their civic RIGHT. If i want to be able to hack software or hardware i paid for i should be able to, companies arent requiered to make it easy for me but they damn well should be lobbying for laws that make it illegal... what am i buying then... a service? i think not... im paying for a product and thats what i damn well want!
Id like you to tell me why arguing that everything should be hacked is ridiculous. Its completly useful, interoperatability and adaptability aren't always the priority of companies who are trying to push monopolies on their products sectors but they are definate advantages to consumers. Every day were being pushed by these companies to buy only their products (SONY and its memory sticks vs flash cards etc). The point im trying to make is that there are millions of good reasons to hack things but none not to. If you wanna claim thats its not constructive and its a waste of time thats fine, but its MY time and im going to do whatever i want with it. If you dont wanna rip apart your palm thats fine with me but if you're trying to tell me that i should rip apart mine then i have a problem
I wonder if the company did any market research before creating this product. I mean where do a good majority of people use cellphones most... their cars. A video phone will be useless in the car and would probably cause some very bad driving. Also im sure the units and the service are going to be very pricey. Seriously i dont think that anyone is has some sort of driving need to see people theyre alking to while their out of their homes. With the relativly weak acceptance of standard video phones i really dont see this idea doing very well. Sorry but i think this product will be a bomb...
Having my fair share of serious concentration problems ill tell you what i feel has helped me most. 1) while reading or doing anything where your trying to remember stuff (studying for a test at school etc) listen to musics light in the lyrics department personally im a big pink floyd fan so i find Dark Side of the Moon to be great for that. 2) Coding or preforming any task that involves creativity i like to have the loudest possible music i can get, personally i find anything hard rock/metal/heavy alt rock to work great though sometimes ill listen to softer stuff. White noise i usually find annoying and sometimes even distracting... id much rather hear some good music especially stuff that i know really well because then i dont concentrate on the lyrics at all.
Because, with current processes and materials it would be a very large ineffecient overheated piece of crap. They have to increase the effiency of the chip before they can start to push that speed... eg smaller transistors, better heat sinks, possibly even better materials... galium arsenide anyone?
From personal experience I can tell you that learning on a to program on a Microsoft platform has no really hurt my ability to program for Unix. In fact the very first programming language I was learned MS VBasic, and since I started to code with C, and Java I've never looked back. As soon as I started to use unix on a shell account ive been awestruck by its ease as a programming language.
Unix is an OS built to work so well with C. In windows doing file/printer I/O was really fucking annoying and quite cryptic for a beginer, in unix it was just SO simple to understand conceptually and implement. Sockets as well are beyond annoying in windows and in Unix are just so much easier to do (and do right).
Having the Source code to all of the important system binaries made learning C so much easier for me as in gave me more example code than I could possibly dream of and having header files to do most use most of the operating systems functions(eg unistd.h) allowed my programs to actually do useful things (as opposed to a database or snake in VB).
I say let Microsoft educate the kinds, because as soon as they get thier hands on Unix theyll never want to go back. If you want to get kinds using unix then the best thing you can do is make them see how much more powerful it is. theres not a dreary Windows using day that goes by where i dont wish for a nice combo of cat and grep or ps and kill to make this piece of crap OS do what i want it to. Hopefully i can now get back to using my good windows friends Scandisk and defragment to finish cleaning up my harddrive so i can split it into a linux partition for the first time since last June.
As a kid with personal experience there is NOTHING better than unix for the aspiring programmer.
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I dont think you actually have to pay the certification charge... i mean what are they going to do to force you to pay. Now if you sell the software that might be a different story legally but i think the certification for freeware is going to be totally unenforcable, hell since the system does use linux wouldn't they technically have to try to charge linux developers for making their software. In other words i really think that this is not going to be easy for them to enforce. Now maybe they expect people to get certification if they want their software to be considered "official" but im really not sure.
This thing is SO much more than just a games console. I mean it has built in capability to be a DVD movie player AND a mp3 jukebox. It has ethernet(which translates to both highspeed access and functionality as an internet appliance), usb ports (keyboard and mouse to think of a few good uses. or maybe an external harddrive for movies, mp3s, games, etc). Its capable of running almost all linux software(with a little modification possibly), and it can play FREE games. In other words this system can be cheap and powerful PC, media device, or almost anything else with extra peripherals and some software. hmmmm wonder if i could use it as a cheap firewall or router... If this is more than vapourware im going to be one very happy(and broke) XXXTaC
Though personallyi don't believe real world trademarks and such should apply to the internet especially in terms of the name services system i can find NOTHING wrong with typosquatting. Why should these company's be allowed to have control over names that they DO NOT own, if they don't registed the typoed domain names themselves (and for the amount some people pay for domain names i can't see why they dont try to atleast) then they have no ownership over them and shouldn't be able to force people to give them up. I really hope that ICANN takes a much less favourable stance towards these companies that it's predecessors have in the past. The domain name system works on a first-come-first-server and should continue to do so without the help of our good laywer friends who are making some big bucks on the whole "cybersquatting" issue.